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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
7
The Scranton Tribune published daily except Sunday at fifty cents a month. New York office listed. Entered at Scranton Post Office as second class mail matter. Space permitting, letters from friends on current topics may be printed.
Report notes the Hershey case at the foot of the Pennsylvania Republican machine and questions attributing the recent Wiggard of Sorry or the head reast epidemic of Peekville to Quayian.
The document reviews a Hitler speech on public ethics, comments on U S expansion, and notes on political power and public opinion. It discusses library commissions, state aid, and a coroner’s report into the Bragnell mine disaster citing carelessness and dangerous conditions.
The act creates a commission to establish free traveling libraries across the commonwealth and to oversee library districts. Governor Stone appoints commissioners from Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Allegheny with terms of four and three years, aiming to carry libraries to the people and raise public library access statewide.
Indiana senator Beveridge plans to speak on American sovereignty over the Philippines, ignoring a custom against first year speeches. The speech, reviewed by the president and cabinet, is described as an official delivery that may signal the rise of a new leadership in foreign policy.
The Pennsylvania Audubon Society reports growth to 5,000 members and 25,000 distributed circulars in its third annual update. It notes a national shift toward humane fashion and a Bird Day in schools, urging broader public support and continued educational outreach.
The Paris exhibit will feature free maize samples for visitors to prove corn can fit human cuisine. Reformers seek to overcome European prejudice that corn is only for wine and animals, hoping Yankee dishes persuade the continent to embrace it.
The article argues European agrarian interests resist American corn due to prejudice, but rising population and famines may push Europe toward embracing corn for nutritive value and abundance. It notes Philadelphia may send aid to Boers and Bradford County's ongoing coal, oil, or mineral ventures as a broader economic backdrop.
An extended verse explores the creed of the lion as old as time and as young as a cub, mixing jungle power with law and destiny. It contrasts rulers with the weak, notes nature’s splendor, and ends with autumnal bounty and the reapers’ refrain in New York.
A surreal lyric scene tied to London Evening Sun imagery portrays Cupid hiding his winged forms as a maiden dons the veil and gloves, while a hammock scene in Chicago Times-Herald shows a maiden waking to a gentle kiss before retreat. Alice Archer Bewall in Harper's adds a reflective poem fragment.
A collage of quips and spoof lines from various papers. Jokes about money letters, fathers, and remittances mix with social gossip about Smiths daughters and dry goods clerks. Witty exchanges on cold storage, army service, and bread pudding close the snippet.
A passenger jokes about a straw vote while the conductor clarifies a hold up as train robbers. The exchange ends with relief that the danger isn’t as feared. Chicago News report reflects wartime mood and public concern.
Cartoonish snippets show a quarrelsome shopper who knows what she wants provoking a clerk. The dialogue shifts to a jokes collection with puns about a penknife and a streetcar tragedy twist, followed by a quip about mules in the Transvaal and Boer reaction.
A collage of global notes on policy, science, and society. Austin legalizes the metric system with old weights preserved. Norwicht imported ice. heat strains supply. German students die from corporal punishment. Japan opens an Imperial museum at Yokohama. Edinburg gains Britain’s largest railway station. Russia builds vast railways. Siberia expands. UK wage data report small rises for English workers. Nuremberg’s factory komplex employs thousands. orders worth millions. Self defense taught to Caucasus children. limestone conversion and wool on the horizon. Minehurst hosts ten gardens. tea planted on estate. West Virginia industrial expansion. German societies fund harvesting machine prize. Banana trade shifts. thawing as NJ industry discussed. Bavaria beer consumption, milk yields, and US butter production stats. Microbe fecundity highlighted with a growth example.
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